ERP KIM Newsletter
22-06-03
Weekend edition
GREATER ALBANIA OR GREATER KOSOVO - MYTH OR REALITY
Translations from the Serbian Press:
VECERNJE NOVOSTI:
BORDER ATTACK FOR A GREATER ALBANIAVECERNJE NOVOSTI:
ALBANIANS WANT A COUNTRY STRETCHING TO NIS
HISTORICAL ANALYSES:
GREATER ALBANIA EXPLAINED by
Carl Savich
The Greater Albania ideology emerged and
crystallized with the 1878 League of Prizren. This policy has continued for over
a century. The Greater Albania strategy seeks to annex and gain control of
territories inhabited by ethnic Albanians even in areas where Albanians are a
minority. These "Albanian lands", the Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohija, the
Southern Serbia region made up of the Medvedja, Presevo, and Bujanovac areas,
southern Montenegro, northern Greece made up of the Janina area, Chameria in the
Greater Albania lexicon, and, western Macedonia, Illirida in the Greater Albania
nomenclature. (READ MORE)THE GREATER ALBANIA IDEOLOGY
AND THE MACEDONIAN CONFLICT
The objective and goal of the Albanian
"Insurgency" or terrorist war in Macedonia is to implement the federalization
plan, the partition of Macedonia into Albanian and Slav federal units. The
federalization plan demanded by the NLA would result in de facto
independence/secession/partition of Macedonia. The federalization plan is
modeled on the Kosovo paradigm or blueprint. NATO military intervention and
occupation of Macedonia are integral parts of the NLA strategy. NATO
intervention is required to establish de facto partition and federalization. The
model is Kosovo. With NATO intervention, the NLA which achieve its objective to
establish not "greater rights", but a Greater Albania, the goal and objective of
the Albanian nationalist agenda for over a century. GREATER ALBANIA - by Tim
Judah
"New York Review of Books - The West had
created a monster. Yes, we had severed the head of Greater Serbia only to
discover that Balkan nationalism is hydra-headed. In its place we now stood
confronted by the evil specter of rabid, expansionist Albanian nationalism,
which aimed to create either a Greater Albania or at least a Greater
Kosovo.....The prerequisite to creating a Greater Kosovo including parts of
Macedonia or a Greater Albania has, of course, to be an independent Kosovo - Tim
Judah - READ MORE". KOSOVO SERBIAN ISSUE AND THE
GREATER ALBANIA PROJECT by Slavenko Terzich
"Greater
Albania" with the leading idea "all Albanians in one state" represents not only
a belated example of the national romanticism of the 19th century, but also
questions existing internationally recognized borders, jeopardizes stability in
the whole of Southeast Europe and threatens to cause a new, third Balkan war.
The ambition to set up an ethnically pure Greater Albania at any cost represents
an even greater anachronism. The Albanian political and intellectual elite
obviously suffer from a large deficiency of European logic.
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